This chapter provides an overview and discussion on how to plan for upgrading users, roles, organizations, components, templates, providers, channels, and properties files from Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 to Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2.

Overview of Upgrade Process

The Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 product uses the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.1 service as its LDAP data store and management interface. The Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 product used the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 service as its LDAP data store and management interface. Although the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.1 and the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 products are similar in structure and provide many of the same services, changes to the product require you to upgrade the Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 to 6.1 before you can upgrade your Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 software to the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 software.

Note

The Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 product can be deployed into a variety of web containers including the Sun ONE Web Server, the Sun ONE Application Server, the IBM Websphere Application Server, and the BEA Weblogic Application Server; however, when upgrading your Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 installation into a Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 installation you must deploy it into the same brand of web container.

These are the high-level steps to upgrade from Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 to Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2. (Subsequent chapters provide step-by-step instructions for performing the actual process.)

Before you start the Sun ONE Portal Server upgrade process, shut down all instances on all nodes running the Sun ONE Portal Server software in your system. The upgrade process involves changes that do not allow the old Sun ONE Portal Server software version to be run at the same time as the new Sun ONE Portal Server software version.

Upgrading Certificates

If the name of the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 system is the same as the name of the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 system from which you are upgrading, you can use your existing certificates. If the names are not the same, you will need new certificates. For details on using certificates with Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2, see the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 Administrator’s Guide sections onconfiguring SSL.

Upgrading Multiple Nodes

Use the following information to help plan the upgrade process when upgrading multiple nodes:

Your Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 system can consist of one or more nodes running the Sun ONE Portal Server software, all of which share a single logical Sun ONE Directory Server for its LDAP data store. The upgrade process involves changes that do not allow the old Sun ONE Portal Server software version to be run at the same time as the new Sun ONE Portal Server software version. Therefore, before you start the upgrade process you must completely shut down all instances running the Sun ONE Portal Server software in your system.

Once the LDAP data has been upgraded and the primary or first Sun ONE Portal Server node has been upgraded, you may restore traffic to your Sun ONE Portal Server system. Subsequent nodes may be upgraded while the primary Sun ONE Portal Server node is in operation.